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Bailing on a trad route, past halfway on your rope 7-Sep-2013 At 11:37:17 PM phillipivan

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Most of those options could work. I think what you actually need is a heuristic to help decide between the options.

For instance:

If either party member is injured more expedient methods may be preferable to leaving as little gear behind as possible.

If you will have more abseils to do to reach the ground methods that dont involve leaving a fixed rope, or excessive gear will be preferable.

If you can just walk to the top of the cliff abseil down and retrieve you gear, then it probably doesnt matter, leave all the gear behind, and spend an extra half hour getting it out on rap.

If you don't trust the gear, and the climbing is hard, down climbing will not be appealing.

If you don't trust the gear, and the climbing is easy, down climbing will be appealing.

Etc, etc, etc.